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People walk by yachts moored at the Hercules Port in Monaco on September 25, 2019 during the 28th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show. - The Monaco Yacht Show is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in luxury yachting and featuring over a hundred super and megayachts. (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Cutting carbon matters — if you're rich

Maddie Stone - Grist
Biospherian 2nd crew (Courtesy of Institute of Ecotechnics)

The inside story of Biosphere 2

Kathelin Gray
Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (Getty Images)

A battle over female genital mutilation

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
Sex workers and activists stage a protest outside Parliament in London as MPs debate a proposal to outlaw online prostitution platforms. The members of a cross-party group on prostitution argue that UK should follow the recent FOSTA-SESTA legislation in the US, which makes sex work advertising websites directly accountable for encouraging exploitation and trafficking. The protesters say that such legislation will make sex work more dangerous by forcing it out on the streets and removing access to databases of violent clients. July 04, 2018 in London, England. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Silicon Valley's puritanical war on sex

Jillian C. York
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on February 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Why Dems aren't undoing Trump policies

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface. (Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images)

Ingenuity preps for takeoff on Mars

Nicole Karlis
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U.S.'s drinking water is easy to poison

Peter Elkind, Jack Gillum - ProPublica
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Inmates reluctant to get COVID vaccine

Eric Berger - KFF Health News
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A nurse looks at test tubes after taking a blood sample from a patient suffering from Covid 19, in the Covid-19 department at the Bari Polyclinic on May 05, 2020 in Bari, Italy. (Donato Fasano/Getty Images)

Don’t count out convalescent plasma

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
A box of the AstraZeneneca vaccine is seen in a cooling refrigerator (Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Fauci concerned over AstraZeneca data

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden stops to talk to the media after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden were traveling from Wilmington, Delaware, where they spent the weekend with family and friends. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Biden's climate agenda might be "quiet"

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Workers and organizers are pushing for what would be one of the biggest victories for labor in the United States over the past few decades if successful in the first Amazon wharehouse union election in Bessemer, Alabama, where worker's ballots must reach the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by March 29 to be counted. | Demonstrators mourn for the deaths of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York, New York, 1911. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Bob Hennelly
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An offshore oil rig sits in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 12, 2010, as cleanup continues on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Corp climate pledges earn failing grades

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Teenage friends playing video game in an amusement arcade (Getty Images)

Gaming: a salve for teens’ STD woes?

Claudia Lopez Lloreda - Undark
Children painting Easter eggs at home (Getty Images)

I'm afraid of attending an Easter party

Nicole Karlis
People line up before a Covid-19 vaccination drive the Lynchburg fire Department is helping organize at an old TJ Maxx store in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 13, 2021. - The Lynchburg Fire department teamed up with the city government and private industry to help administer and distribute vaccines to the counties around. They also use outreach with community groups to attract county residents from the surrounding areas to the mass vaccination sites. The biggest challenge the department sees moving forward is getting the vaccine to people in the rural areas. Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, an official tracker showed Friday, March 12, around 30 percent of the world's total of shots in arms so far. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine tourists head to red counties

Nicole Karlis
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Wolf cubs (Getty/JohnPitcher)

Downsides of reintroducing predators

Shi En Kim - Massive Science
A rendering showing ELSA-d's concept of operations. The mission aims to demonstrate technology that could help clear space debris. (Astroscale)

Meet Earth's satellite janitor, ELSA-d

Nicole Karlis
Close up of test tubes with toxic labels (Getty Images)

The plausible lab-leak hypothesis

Norman Paradis - Undark
Cows grazing (Getty Images)

India’s battle with brucellosis

Sandy Ong - Undark
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Friends enjoying music on speaker during rooftop party at terrace against sky (Getty Images)

The pandemic is punishing for extroverts

Mary Elizabeth Williams
An employee poses with a pipe used to carrying liquid CO2 on September 08, 2008 at the "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station run by Europe's biggest power company Vattenfall in Werder near Berlin. In a similar manner, Summit Carbon Solutions, a spinoff of an Iowa-based agricultural company, recently announced it is developing a $2 billion pipeline project that will carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol refineries scattered across the Midwest to a site in North Dakota where it will be pumped thousands of feet underground. (MICHAEL URBAN/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Disastrous attempts to control nature

John Schwartz - Undark
Broken beaker glass in science laboratory (Getty Images)

Lab leak: science and politics collide

Charles Schmidt - Undark
A damaged home in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Louisiana’s plan to stay above water

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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